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architecture and design magazineSun, 02 Aug 2015 20:00:09 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2Objects for the Neighbour at Passagenhttp://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/25/objects-for-the-neighbour-exhibition-at-passagen/
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/25/objects-for-the-neighbour-exhibition-at-passagen/#commentsFri, 25 Jan 2013 10:00:12 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=285373Cologne 2013: squishy stools shaped like animals and a family of multi-storey glass jars are among the objects designed for an exhibition during last week's interior design event Passagen in Cologne (+ slideshow). Above: Pets stool by Hanna Emelie Ernsting Objects for the Neighbour took place at Passagen, which runs alongside trade fair imm cologne, and […]

]]>Cologne 2013: squishy stools shaped like animals and a family of multi-storey glass jars are among the objects designed for an exhibition during last week's interior design event Passagen in Cologne (+ slideshow).

From 14th through 20th January 2013, the exhibition Objects for the Neighbour envisions what initially is out of reach. The focus is on the neighbour: eight designers create objects on the subject of neighbourhood, which they will display throughout the Passagen in Cologne.

The designers Sarah Böttger (D), Hanna Ernsting (D), Karoline Fesser (D), Florian Hauswirth (CH), Hanna Krüger (D), Kai Linke (D), Julien Renault (B) und Thomas Schnur (D) have already displayed their work at national and international fairs. They are united by friendship and their interest in serially produced products. With Objects for the Neighbour they engage in a joined topic, which is generally accessible. However, individually it can be very different in detail and complexity.

The neighbour – is it an actual person or rather a vague guess? Perhaps he is a mirage, wishful thinking or memory. Where is the start of a neighbourhood to begin with? At the own front door, the boundary of the city, the region, the country, the continent or the planet? Or does neighbourhood start within the family, friendship or a relationship?

Thus the subject neighbourhood therefore appears vague and fuzzy. Only through approaches and decisions it obtains an identity, which in turn can be divined based on the actual product.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/25/objects-for-the-neighbour-exhibition-at-passagen/feed/2Blasted Vase and Side Table by Kai Linkehttp://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/10/blasted-vase-and-side-table-by-kai-linke/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/10/blasted-vase-and-side-table-by-kai-linke/#commentsFri, 10 Sep 2010 11:49:30 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=94876Frankfurt designer Kai Linke has created a series of vases and side tables by sand-blasting timber to enhance the texture of the grain then casting the resulting shapes in ceramic. Linke presented the new pieces in his ongoing Blasted Familii series at Tendence fair in Frankfurt last month. "Blasted Familii is a series of simple, […]

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]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/10/blasted-vase-and-side-table-by-kai-linke/feed/4Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Kai Linkehttp://www.dezeen.com/2010/08/24/dezeentalks-at-d3-design-talents-kai-linke/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/08/24/dezeentalks-at-d3-design-talents-kai-linke/#commentsTue, 24 Aug 2010 12:47:51 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=92760DezeenTV: the next movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents features designer Kai Linke of Frankfurt talking us through his selection of eclectic images including a dog covered in snowballs and the long wait involved when growing chairs from plant roots. Click on the symbol in the bottom right of the video player above […]

DezeenTV: the next movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents features designer Kai Linke of Frankfurt talking us through his selection of eclectic images including a dog covered in snowballs and the long wait involved when growing chairs from plant roots.

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]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2010/08/24/dezeentalks-at-d3-design-talents-kai-linke/feed/0Roots by Kai Linkehttp://www.dezeen.com/2010/01/29/roots-by-kai-linke/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/01/29/roots-by-kai-linke/#commentsFri, 29 Jan 2010 16:04:41 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=62461Cologne 2010: Frankfurt designer Kai Linke is working on a project to grow furniture from plant roots. Linke explained the project, called Roots, at the Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents in Cologne last week; his experiments so far involve cultivating fast-growing plants such as grass, cress, bulbs and bamboo and chanelling their roots into a […]

Cologne 2010: Frankfurt designer Kai Linke is working on a project to grow furniture from plant roots.

Linke explained the project, called Roots, at the Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents in Cologne last week; his experiments so far involve cultivating fast-growing plants such as grass, cress, bulbs and bamboo and chanelling their roots into a miniature chair-shaped mould.

Once the roots have completely filled the mould it is removed, leaving a scale model of a piece of furniture.

This exploration is the first stage of a long term project, which Linke hopes will result in a full size chair made of roots.

We'll post the movies from the Dezeentalks soon, including Linke interviewed by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.

The idea referring to this concept arises out of the abstract conflict of deformations in nature.

Deformations can be caused by human hand consciously or by coincidence.

The intervention of humans into the growth of a plant can be described as deformation.

The human is the activator for a modified plant-growth. The plant is disturbed to develop itself in a natural way.

In different trials with help of grass, cress, bulbs, bamboo and hyacinths the rooting-growths was analysed.

The roots were channelled into shapes in different culture mediums until they filled those shapes completely.

After the roots have conquered the whole space – similar to a plant in a pot that is too small – the shape has been taken away.

Remaining are the roots, formed into the shapes of stools and tables.

The material wood, in this case root wood is forced already during it’s growth into a desired shape and not as usual by human deforming of the outside to the material into the desired shape.

This concept is depending a natural circumstance such as: weather, water dung, potting soil and the paste in which the root fills the form.

The above-mentioned plant groups are suitable for trials in smaller measures. In a long-term experiment – that will be going on for years – trials will be observed in a measure of 1 by 1. Result out of this will be the “Root Chair”.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2010/01/29/roots-by-kai-linke/feed/9Mirror Chairs by Kai Linkehttp://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/17/mirror-chairs-by-kai-linke/
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/17/mirror-chairs-by-kai-linke/#commentsTue, 17 Mar 2009 20:57:56 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/17/mirror-chairs-by-kai-linke/Frankfurt designer Kai Linke has created a collection of furniture by manipulating the archetypal plastic garden chair. Parts of the chairs have been mirrored to create symmetrical forms. "Due to the fact that some of the chairs are hard or nearly impossible to use as normal seating objects it allows many thoughts in between,"says Linke. […]

Frankfurt designer Kai Linke has created a collection of furniture by manipulating the archetypal plastic garden chair.

Parts of the chairs have been mirrored to create symmetrical forms.

"Due to the fact that some of the chairs are hard or nearly impossible to use as normal seating objects it allows many thoughts in between,"says Linke.

Here's some text from the designer:

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Mirror Chairs
By Kai Linke / 2009

“Mirror Chairs” is an edition that so far includes four different chairs. The general idea behind this session was deformation. In detail the strange new forms that occurred by using different camera effects fascinated me.

These new objects I rebuilt with monoblock chairs which I am addicted to for years anyway. The new-formed chairs get a totally different meaning and each one of them has it’s own very special identity which sometimes even appears poetic like the two chairs that seam to embrace themselves.